Journée éclair que ce Day 3 de l’EPT Madrid, Grande Finale à 10 000€, où des dizaines de joueurs ont sauté après que la bulle ait éclaté. Côté Français, c’est la bérézina à tous les niveaux, avec un seul survivant —Hugo Lemaire— rescapé de cette étonnante boucherie pour le Day 3 d’un Main Event aussi cher…

Mais le jeune Parisien n’aura guère de munitions pour combattre puisqu’après avoir caracolé en tête pendant plusieurs jours, il se retrouve en queue de wagon, avec moins de 300 000 jetons, soit dix fois moins que le chipleader américain Eugene Yanayt.

Pour être tout à fait honnête, cet avant-dernier carré de joueurs ne fait guère rêver : aucune star (si ce n’est Alex Gomes, très peu connu en Europe, en quête de Triple Crown ou le revenant Victor Ramdin) et un jeu plutôt solide qui n’est pas des plus excitants à regarder, même avec les cartes révélées en direct, comme c’est le cas pour la table télévisée de l’EPT retransmise sur internet…

Le Day 4 devrait aider à déterminer la table finale à 8 joueurs et la bataille s’annonce rude car le premier repartira avec la jolie somme de 1 500 000€… A noter, la belle performance de l’amateur Lucien Cohen, qui sort en 33ème place pour seulement… 30 000€

Chipcounts

25th. Vasily Fursov, Russia, €35,000
26th. Erik van den Berg, Holland, PokerStars player, €35,000
27th. Eugene Katchalov, Ukraine, Team PokerStars Pro, €35,000
28th. Philippe Boucher, Canada, €35,000
29th. TBC
30th. Joao Studart, Brazil, €35,000
31st. Pedro Javier Piazuelo Ferrero, Spain, €35,000
32nd. Kjartan Berger Jonsson, Iceland, €35,000

33rd. Lucien Cohen, France, PokerStars Player, €30,000
34th. Markus Ristola, Finland, €30,000
35th. William Reynolds, United States, €30,000
36th. Daniel Weinman, United States, PokerStars player, €30,000
37th. Fernando Brito, Portugal, €30,000
38th. Ted Forrest, United States, €30,000
39th. TBC
40th. Josef Bachar, Israel, €30,000

41st. Daniel Idema, Canada, €25,000
42nd. Michael Friedrich, Switzerland, €25,000
43rd. Samir Moukawem, Canada, €25,000
44th. Ben Wilinofsky, Canada, PokerStars player, €25,000
45th. Leo Fernandez, Argentina, Team PokerStars Pro, €25,000
46th. Marco Leonzio, Italy, €25,000
47th. Antonio Ferreira, Portugal, €25,000
48th. Tim Finne, United States, €25,000
49th. Jan Bendik, Slovakia, €25,000
50th. Allen Bari, United States, €25,000
51st. Dean Lyall, United Kingdom, PokerStars player, €25,000
52nd. Andre Alcaria, France, €25,000
53rd. Grzegorz Cichocki, Poland, PokerStars qualifier, €25,000
54th. Jason Grad, Canada, PokerStars player, €25,000
55th. Ran Azor, Israel, €25,000
56th. Kristoffer Thorsson, Sweden, €25,000

57th. Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany, €20,000
58th. Juan Carlos Placer, Spain, €20,000
59th. Will Molson, Canada, PokerStars player, €20,000
60th. McLean Karr, United States, €20,000
61st. Liviu Catalin Toderita, Romania, €20,000
62nd. Carlos Mora, Mexico, PokerStars player, €20,000
63rd. Javier Martinez Gil, Spain, €15,000
64th. Tyler Cornell, United States, €20,000
65th. Jose De La Guardia, Panama, PokerStars qualifier, €20,000
66th. Alvaro Velasco, Spain, €20,000
67th. Ivan Demidov, Russia, Team PokerStars Pro, €20,000
68th. Francois Billard, Canada, €20,000
69th. Benjamin Stosser, Germany, €20,000
70th. Shander de Vries, Holland, PokerStars qualifier, €20,000
71st. David Sonelin, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, €20,000
72nd. Fabrizio Gonzalez, Uruguay, €20,000
73th. Garbar Geir Hauksson, Iceland, €20,000
74th. Iulian Iacob, Romania, €20,000
75th. Xuan Liu, Canada, €20,000
76th. Niklas Toorell, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, €20,000
77th. Eric Gambararo, France, €20,000
78th. Mikhall Shakhnovich, Russia, €20,000
79th. Ruben Velasco, Spain, €20,000
80th. Andrew Michael Boccia, USA, PokerStars player, €20,000

81st. Georges Dib, Lebanon, €15,000
82nd. Alessandro Tomasin, Italy, PokerStars player, €15,000
83rd. Pierre Neuville, Belgium, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
84th. Santiago Nadal, Mexico, €15,000
85th. TBC
86th. Emil Matsson, Sweden, €15,000
87th. Jean-Noel Thorel, France, €15,000
88th. Jordi Martinez Alfonso, Spain, €15,000
89th. Stefano Demontis, Italy, PokerStars player, €15,000
90th. Frederic Bussot Fuentes, France, €15,000
91st. Mathieu Thiry, France, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
92nd. Mayu Rocu Uribe, Mexico, €15,000
93rd. Johan Verhagen, Holland, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
94th. Fatima Moreira de Melo, Holland, Team PokerStars Pro, €15,000
95th. Asbjorn Lunde, Norway, €15,000
96th. Daniele Guidetti, Italy, €15,000
97th. Jani Sointula, Finland, €15,000
98th. Aviv Meiri, Israel, €15,000
99th. Raymond Wu, Taiwan, Team PokerStars Pro, €15,000
100th. Sam Chartier, Canada, €15,000
101st. Jeffrey Hakim, Canada, PokerStars player, €15,000
102nd. Daniel Heimiller, United States, €15,000
103rd. Viacheslav Goryachev, Russia, €15,000
104th. Bernard Trong Huy Vu, France, €15,000